Gigabyte may refer to any of the following:

  1. Short for gigabyte, GB or GByte is a unit of digital information equal to 1,073,741,824 (230) bytes or 1,000,000,000 (109) bytes. Many hard drive and computer manufacturers list what they consider a gigabyte in the fine print.

What comes before a gigabyte?

A megabyte comes before a gigabyte.

When the “b” is lowercase, like Gb, this refers to a gigabit.

  • What comes before a gigabyte?
  • What comes after a gigabyte?
  • Gigabyte vs. other data measurements.
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What comes after a gigabyte?

A terabyte comes after a gigabyte.

Gigabyte vs. other data measurements

Below is a listing of gigabyte values where a gigabyte is considered 1,000,000,000 (109) bytes. Using this chart, you can find how many gigabytes are in other measurements. For example, you can see 1,000 gigabytes in a terabyte. For measurements that are smaller than a gigabyte, the decimal value is shown.

  1. Gigabyte Technology manufacturers motherboards, GPUs, and other computer hardware. For more information, see our Gigabyte company information page.

See our gibibyte definition for a listing of gigabyte values where a gigabyte equals 1,073,741,824 (230) bytes.

  • Compare gigabyte and other measurements with our conversion tool.
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