Intel Core i9 11900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 125W)
Intel Core i5 12600K 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Better graphics card performance
Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3200)
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 50GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 4.0)
Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 2.5GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (20MB vs 16MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)