Video cards: how many amps?

I read online somewhere that video cards rarely (if ever) draw more than about 12amps, but this was before the NVidia 9 series came out, about 2 years ago confused I think). So- what's the status now? How accurate is this statement with today's modern video cards? And how would someone find out how many amps their video card pulls?

Thanks.

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On Oct30, on the Major Geeks front page there was a link to a power supply review and the reviewer said this:

He was talking about the GeForce 9600GT XXX AlphaDog from XFX.... can anyone confirm or deny this????