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Gigabyte vs Mbps - What's the difference?

gigabyte | mbps |

As nouns the difference between gigabyte and mbps

is that gigabyte is 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB while Mbps is megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate.

As an initialism MBps is

megabytes per second.

gigabyte

English

(wikipedia gigabyte)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
  • * 1981 , IBM, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide , page 1
    • The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.
  • (computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.

    • Coordinate terms

    * Previous: megabyte * Next: terabyte

    Related terms

    * gibibyte * gigabit

    Synonyms

    * gig

    References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions ----

    mbps

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (Mbps)
  • (computing) megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate

    • Coordinate terms

    * bps , kbps , Gbps , Tbps , Pbps , Ebps

    Related terms

    * MBps

    See also

    * megabaud