Intel Core i7 7700 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 125W)
Intel Core i5 12600K 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Better graphics card performance
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 2400)
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 35.76GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 3.6GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (20MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)