std::uniform_real_distribution vs. std::uniform_int_distribution performance

I ran into a performance degradation in one of my applications that I pinpointed to the generation of random data. I wrote a simple benchmark that essentially does the same:

#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <random>

std::mt19937 random_engine{std::random_device()()};

// Generate one million random numbers
template <typename T, typename Distribution>
std::vector<T> generate_random(Distribution distribution) {
  std::vector<T> data(1000000);

  std::generate_n(data.begin(), 1000000, [&]() {
    return static_cast<T>(distribution(random_engine));
  });
  return data;
}

template <typename T>
std::vector<T> create_data() {
  if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, float>)
    return generate_random<float>(
        std::uniform_real_distribution<float>(-127.0f, 127.0f));
  if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, int8_t>)
    return generate_random<int8_t>(
        std::uniform_int_distribution<int32_t>(-127, 127));
}

int main() {
  auto start = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
  auto float_data = create_data<float>();
  std::cout << "Time (float): " << (std::chrono::system_clock::now() - start).count()
            << '\n';

  start = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
  auto int8_data = create_data<int8_t>();
  std::cout << "Time (int8): " << (std::chrono::system_clock::now() - start).count()
            << '\n';

  return 0;
}

On my machine (MacOS Catalina using Clang 11) outputs:

〉g++ tmp.cpp -std=c++17 -O3 && ./a.out
Time (float): 68033
Time (int8): 172771

Why does sampling from the real distribution take less time than from the int distribution?