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4GB of VRAM is a ploy to get more money without the added performance:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/buying-advice/71576-gtx-580-vs-gtx-670-ml.html
Unless, like many OSX users, you're using your card for compute (i.e. video editing), in which case the programs will only use GPU acceleration if the workload can fit in vram.
OS X will only see 2 Gb of the 4, so unless you are dual booting with Win7/8 the extra 2Gb of RAM is wasted.
This is incorrect.
Not OOB it is not. You may have 4Gb show up in system profiler, but you are not actually using the extra 2 Gb with OpenCL unless you do a few hex edits.
If you have better information on a card that works OOB without, please give a model number and show a pic of an app actually using it. I would be interested in it for a new build I am planning.