I haven't looked at their newer offerings, but in years past that was definitely a problem that afflicted AMD -- having a fraction of the floating point executi

I haven't looked at their newer offerings, but in years past that was definitely a problem that afflicted AMD -- having a fraction of the floating point execution units per core, creating AVX by adding an emulation layer over the existing SSE registers, etc. For a lot of use cases AMD could still be faster according to a wall clock (they weren't worse across the board -- those failings were used to purchase advantages in other chip features), but their peak flops were peanuts in comparison to the Intel offerings.