Convert Mebibytes to Gigabytes
Convert Mebibytes (MiB) to Gigabytes (GB) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
GB = MiB × 0.001048576
About Mebibytes
A mebibyte (MiB) = 2²⁰ = 1,048,576 bytes (IEC 80000-13). Windows/older macOS report sizes in MiB but label them 'MB'. Linux malloc and kernel pages are power-of-2 aligned. Docker images: Alpine base 5 MiB; Ubuntu 72 MiB. Linux kernel bzImage 8-12 MiB. NVIDIA RTX 4090: 24 GiB GDDR6X in 2-GiB binary chunks. 1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes = 1,024 KiB.
About Gigabytes
A gigabyte (GB) = 10⁹ bytes (SI). All consumer HDDs, SSDs, SD cards, USB drives, and smartphones advertise in GB. Media sizes: 4K Blu-ray 66-100 GB; 4K Netflix film 10-15 GB; modern AAA PC game 50-200 GB; Google Maps offline country data 5-30 GB. The IBM 350 RAMAC (1956) stored 0.00000375 GB; a Seagate Exos 20 TB holds 20,000 GB - 5.3-million-fold increase in 66 years. 1 GB = 10⁹ bytes = 1,000 MB.
Quick Reference Table
| Mebibytes (MiB) | Gigabytes (GB) |
|---|---|
| 1 MiB | 0.00104858 GB |
| 2 MiB | 0.00209715 GB |
| 5 MiB | 0.00524288 GB |
| 10 MiB | 0.0104858 GB |
| 25 MiB | 0.0262144 GB |
| 50 MiB | 0.0524288 GB |
| 100 MiB | 0.104858 GB |