--- title: SAM3 Model File Map emoji: 🧩 colorFrom: blue colorTo: indigo sdk: static app_file: index.html pinned: false license: other short_description: SAM3 split pipeline - files, VRAM 4.0 GB to 1.47 GB --- A one-page map of the SAM3 split pipeline for fixed prompt lists: which model files exist, which stay loaded while SAM3 runs, which run only once, and how VRAM went from 4.0 GB (SAM3 base, 4K frames) to 1.47 GB for the whole process, with the model itself down from 3.7 GB to 1.2 GB. Model: [sanskar003/SAM3-Split-TextFree](https://huggingface.co/sanskar003/SAM3-Split-TextFree) · Stage 2: [sanskar003/SAM3-Split-Encoder-Decoder](https://huggingface.co/sanskar003/SAM3-Split-Encoder-Decoder)