Intel Core i3 12300 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 65W)
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Higher specification of memory (5600 vs 4800)
Larger memory bandwidth (89.6GB/s vs 76.8GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 5)
Higher base frequency (3.9GHz vs 3.5GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 12MB)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)