There is no difference in terms of the “final” query. The former was the “old” way of querying post meta, before WP_Meta_Query was introduced with support for more complex queries.
WP_Query::get_posts() now simply translates meta_key/value arguments into the new format with WP_Meta_Query::parse_query_vars().
Use whichever format you feel suits best for the task.
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