Intel Core i5 12600 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 2133)
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 3.0)
Larger L3 cache size (18MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
Intel Core i7 6700 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 3.3GHz)