Intel Core i5 9600 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 2.1GHz)
Intel Core i7 12700 '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 (25MB vs 9MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)