They were more accurate, distances due to the bad weather were way shorter, they fired a bit faster and far less shells proved duds.
In practice it was not such as hassle as the Germans showed at Jutland. That was substantial as a 12-in shell weighted 2.5 times less than a 16-in shell, traduced in a weaker salvo overall, and at a shorter range. But still, it was weak, with 12-in guns (30,5 cm) whereas all contemporaries were moving at least to 34 cm guns, or for the British 381 mm (14 and 15 in) with projects in the US and Japan for 16 in guns. The four battleships of the König class were an evolution of the previous Kaiser, as their main innovation laid in the purely axial arrangement of their five turrets, of which with one was amidship and the others superimposed, as done in Great Britain and France. König, Grosser Kurfurst, Markgraf, Kronprinz
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