Intel Core i5 8400 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 125W)
Intel Core i7 12700K 's Advantages
Released 4 years 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)
Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 2.8GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (25MB vs 9MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)