I wonder how much worse it is in practice, because Intel's chips supposedly have to downclock a bit when doing AVX2 because of the heat.
As usual, actual achieved clock speeds depend on thermal performance and are not fixed. If cooling is completely insufficient, the clock frequency will drop below base clocks, i.e. thermal throttling.
To clarify: This isn't a secret, but part of the specs and even in some Intel slides. (However, platform and processor specs, even at a basic (product D/S) level, tend to be a rather lengthy read, so most do away with reading all that).