Intel Core i7 12700 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 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 (25MB vs 6MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
Lower TDP (65W vs 91W)
Intel Core i5 6600K 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 2.1GHz)