A display device includes: a display panel including gate lines, a data lines crossing the gate lines, and pixels connected to the data lines and the gate lines; a data driver configured to drive the data lines; a gate driver configured to drive the gate lines in synchronization with a vertical sync start signal; and a timing controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driver in response to an image signal and a control signal inputted thereto from an outside, where the timing controller outputs the vertical sync start signal to the gate driver, and changes a frequency of the vertical sync start signal when an image signal of a current frame is identical to an image signal shifted from an image signal of a previous frame in a first direction.