diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/dp.c
index 5f301e632599b471c54291797b59c0d51e18be9a..818d21bd28d3122898f11d88c87bc0fec348c5ee 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/dp.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/dp.c
@@ -365,8 +365,15 @@ nvkm_dp_train(struct nvkm_dp *dp, u32 dataKBps)
 	 * and it's better to have a failed modeset than that.
 	 */
 	for (cfg = nvkm_dp_rates; cfg->rate; cfg++) {
-		if (cfg->nr <= outp_nr && cfg->nr <= outp_bw)
-			failsafe = cfg;
+		if (cfg->nr <= outp_nr && cfg->nr <= outp_bw) {
+			/* Try to respect sink limits too when selecting
+			 * lowest link configuration.
+			 */
+			if (!failsafe ||
+			    (cfg->nr <= sink_nr && cfg->bw <= sink_bw))
+				failsafe = cfg;
+		}
+
 		if (failsafe && cfg[1].rate < dataKBps)
 			break;
 	}