[Zardoz84]

The IBM PC (and clones) at the time of launch of the Amiga 500, had at best an 80286 at 6 to 12Mhz . I would call it roughly equivalent CPU with the 68000 at 8Mhz (16 bit segmented addressing vs 16/32bit hybrid with planar ram addressing)

[HappyDaoDude]

At launch definitely was a decent little performer. That said, the 386 was probably launched shortly afterwards as well. The funny thing is that it wasn't until almost the mass adoption of high speed 386's and the 486 in the early 90's that we finally saw a lot of stuff that over took things the Amiga and SNES for that matter. A big part of that was VGA graphics via the VESA bus. The ISA bus did a lot to hold back video out put on these systems. Graphics was almost an afterthought by comparison.

I mean things like Commander Keen were considered really decent for side scrolling graphics on PC but would be seen as trivial on a system like the Amiga and maybe even the NES using early 80's tech. It was a long time until the PC could scroll graphics as smoothly as the NES could with Super Mario in 1985. Custom ASIC designs just had to so leverage back then. It is something we are moving back into nowadays with chiplet designs and SoC's in general. Just look at the processor blow outs on something like the M1/M2 to see this.