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Falcon had an 030, 1200 an 020

Sure, but there wasn’t that much of a difference between the 030 and 020.

Falcon and 1200 had the same form factor. They are the final 80s-style home computer for their respective brands.

The CPU in the Falcon was also clocked higher (available in 16 MHz or 25 Mhz) was limited by a 16-bit bus. A stock Amiga 1200's 68EC020 ran at 14 Mhz and did have a 32-bit bus was limited by having only "Chip RAM" (shared with custom chips).

The DSP was a difference though, for raw calculations. I think it might have been NeXT machines that had started the trend of having a DSP. Commodore had built a prototype of the Amiga 3000 with a DSP in it which was talked about at the time but it was never released. Amiga enthusiasts have only recreated DSP boards in more recent years.

On the Amiga, the various DMA devices such as the blitter, sprites, audio, disk, video could effectively steal cycles from CPU. I believe the original ST didnt have a blitter. Did the CPU on the ST suffer the same problems when it got its blitter and received higher resolutions ?

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