There is very little overall difference between GCC 4.8 and clang 3.3 in terms of speed of the resulting binary. In most cases code generated by both compilers performs similarly. Neither of these two compilers dominates the other one.
Benchmarks telling that there is a significant performance gap between GCC and clang are coincidental.
Program performance is affected by the choice of the compiler. If a developer or a group of developers is exclusively using GCC then the program can be expected to run slightly faster with GCC than with clang, and vice versa.
From developer viewpoint, a notable difference between GCC 4.8+ and clang 3.3 is that GCC has the -Og command line option. This option enables optimizations that do not interfere with debugging, so for example it is always possible to get accurate stack traces. The absence of this option in clang makes clang harder to use as an optimizing compiler for some developers.
