Intel Core i9 12900 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4800 vs DDR4-3200)
Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 47.68GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 4.0)
Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 's Advantages
Higher base frequency (3.8GHz vs 2.4GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 30MB)