What about the ati radeon 4870 makes it incompatible with '07 mac pros?

maybe a stupid question but there ya go.

OWC was selling some OEM Apple 3870's last summer, short supply, never were sold by Apple, and unlike the retail 3870s, these would ONLY work in the 2008 Mac Pro.... so there is some precedent that the new Apple branded may not work in our EFI32 systems also.
Or ATI could come out with another retail version; but this time around I'm not yet seeing a universal statement "works on any Mac Pro" for hardware requirements.
"EFI64" is how folks talk about it, but may not be technically correct term, and just something we "made up" to describe - the whole need for two sets of EBC firmware for two versions of the Nvidia 8800GTs out there.
(I thought EFI would begin to take off or be used more in the PC universe or something by HP and others but it is only officially supported on 64-bit OS/hardware. Snow Leopard will use 64-bit drivers. I wonder if that is part of the move to EFI64 or whatever the rightful name.)

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