Intel Core i5 12500 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
Better graphics card performance
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4800 vs DDR4-2666)
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 41.6GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 3.0)
Larger L3 cache size (18MB vs 16MB)
More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)
Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)
Intel Core i9 9900K 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 3.0GHz)