Why does a computer need a dedicated graphics card for high-graphics video games, but can play 4K quality video without one?

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Why does a computer need a dedicated graphics card for high-graphics video games, but can play 4K quality video without one?

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Game graphics are rendered in real time and benefit from special hardware built for parallelism and particular mathematical operations.

Most mainboards have a decent integrated graphics controller these days. It certainly does well at decompressing video data and piping it to the output, which is a more linear operation.

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