Game:

Wario Land 3 (2000)

Duration: 26:38

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Test method: I let Wario Land 3's title screen and action help demos run after clearing the save file. This allowed me to press a single button simultaneously on all three consoles, and minimized the amount of potential human error from this sort of real-time test. I started the test after 5 seconds had elapsed on the timer shown on the right, and let all games run for about 25 minutes. (The end of the video is me double checking the audio sync between the Switch and GBA by muting each one in turn.)
I apologize for the 30fps video and the overexposure of the GBA screen; I could not find a way to remedy this while having the other three screens visible. I considered using the requisite capture devices for all 3 consoles instead, but I didn't want any issues with video conversion "fixing" the framerate and causing any confusion for me later.

Summary: 3DS Virtual Console runs too fast, and the change is noticeable pretty early. Switch and GBA are nearly identical. (The Switch might be slightly slower, it's hard to say for certain. But the difference is so slight that it would take several hours for it to drift off by even half a second). From a timing standpoint, the Switch GB/GBC emulator should be perfectly fine for competitive/speedrunning use. There are some edge case inaccuracies regarding certain OoB in Wario Land 3, but this doesn't affect any of the accepted speedrun categories.

Devices in this video:
Top left - Switch, Nintendo Switch Online GB emulator
Bottom left - New3DSXL, 3DS Virtual Console
Center - Gameboy Advance SP (GBC cart in GBA console)
Right - a tablet running the Livesplit Remote app, which I used to remotely display the timer on my computer without moving it.

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