Their architecture still differs. The Tegra series chips arent identical to the Ampere series chips.
Switch 2 Uses Emulation :p
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The CPU instructions should be nearly identical as its till ARM. Maybe the Switch 2 has a few extra ones due to being newer.
The GPU instructions are likely entirely different as GPU instructions change quite frequently between generations. thus games compiled for the switch 1 GPU wouldbt be 100% compatible with the switch 2 GPU. Same thing on PC 2 different GPUs need separate shaders compiled for them.
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