Intel Core i7 12700 's Advantages
Released 3 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)
Intel Core i5 8500 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.0GHz vs 2.1GHz)