Intel Core i7 9700 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 125W)
Intel Core i9 12900K 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 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)
Higher base frequency (32GHz vs 3.0GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (30MB vs 12MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)