Gibibytes (GiB) to Gibibits (Gibit) Conversion

Gibibytes

The gibibyte (GiB) is a unit of digital information equal to exactly 1,073,741,824 bytes (2³⁰ bytes). It is what operating systems actually measure when reporting hard drive and SSD capacity — a "1 TB" drive (10¹² bytes) appears as approximately 931 GiB in Windows because the OS reports in binary multiples while the manufacturer uses decimal. RAM is always manufactured in exact powers of 2, so a "4 GB" RAM module contains exactly 4 GiB.

Gibibits

The gibibit (Gibit) is a unit of digital information equal to exactly 1,073,741,824 bits (2³⁰ bits). It is used in technical specifications for storage controllers, memory buses, and high-speed serial interfaces where binary bit counts are required for protocol compliance. Network engineers use gibibits when specifying memory-mapped registers and buffer sizes at the hardware level.

Convert Gibibytes (GiB) to other units of Binary Data