Intel Core i5 12500 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Better graphics card performance
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 2666)
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 41.6GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 3.0)
Larger L3 cache size (18MB vs 9MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
Intel Core i5 9600 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 3.0GHz)