Gigabytes to Megabytes

Gigabyte

A gigabyte (GB) is a widely used unit of digital storage equal to 1,000 megabytes or 1 billion bytes. It is the standard measurement for device capacity such as smartphones, USB drives, game installations, and operating system downloads. Gigabytes provide a convenient scale for managing modern apps and media files, which often require significant storage space.

Because GB are associated directly with device and cloud storage, converting between gigabytes and megabytes or terabytes helps users understand how much space content will actually take up.

Megabyte

A megabyte (MB) is a commonly used unit equal to 1,000 kilobytes or 1 million bytes. It often describes the size of apps, song files, photos, and short video clips. Because megabytes are large enough to represent significant data but still easy to visualize, they are widely used in digital storage.

Megabytes are especially helpful when estimating how many files will fit on a device or how much data a download will use. A converter simplifies switching between MB and units like kilobytes or gigabytes.