eli5 Why does GPU heats and use fan to cooldown while processing 8k video on PC and there is no single fan in a TV and still process 8k/4k videos?

Question

In short, why does the the TV doesn’t need a fan to cooldown and PC requires one while dealing with high definition videos?

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Answer 1

A TV doesn’t process 4k videos it only plays/shows them. Which doesn’t require a lot of power.

Your pc doesn’t heat up when watching a YouTube video, because it isn’t rendering/processing it