Difference between Bit and Byte

Bit and byte appear to be very similar terms but there is a vast difference between them. They are the units that are used in computers. It is used in deciding the speed of data transmission between CPU and register, RAM and CPU, and so on. At the same time, it also decides the speed with which data is received in networking. 

Example: 2Mbps or 1Gbps.

Bit

Bit is the smallest unit of the computer. It is usually represented with digits 0 and 1.

Byte

Byte is made of 8 bits. It is used in determining the system storage. Byte is the most common term used in computing. It is used to represent 2^8 = 256 different values. 

Example -10001110.

1024 bytes=1KiloByte
1024 KiloBytes= 1MegaByte
and so on.

Difference between Bit and Byte

Bit	Byte
It is the smallest unit of data.	It can be understood as a collection of 8 bits. It is quite greater.
It is represented either in form of 0 or 1.	It is represented in 256 different types. It also consist of additional special characters.
It is represented by the symbol ‘b’ in lowercase.	It is represented by the symbol ‘B’ in upper case.
It is of different sizes Kilobit(Kb), megabit(Mb),gigabit(Gb), terabit(Tb), etc.	There are different sizes like KiloByte(KB), megaByte(MB), gigaByte(GB) ,terabyte(TB), HexaByte(HB), PetaByte(PB), etc.
Example- Used in Radio, Telecommunications, Data Speed, Voltage, etc.	Example – Used in data files storage Movies, images, etc.

Now we see an example “Which one is greater than 10 Mbps or 10 MBps?”

10 MBps (Megabytes per second) is greater than 10 Mbps (Megabits per second) because 10 MegaBytes consist of 10*8=80 Mbps.

Simply understand that the data speed through which we get the internet is in kilobits, megabits, and gigabits, and the storage with which data is stored in the computer is in form of KiloBytes, MegaBytes, and GigaBytes.