Gate driving circuit and display apparatus comprising the same

A gate driving circuit, comprising:

• a plurality of scan shift clock lines transferring a plurality of scan shift clocks;
• a plurality of carry shift clock lines transferring a plurality of carry shift clocks;
• and
• first to mth stage circuits selectively connected to the plurality of scan shift clock lines and connected to any one of the plurality of carry shift clock lines,
• wherein the first to mth stage circuits are grouped into k number of stage groups having two adjacent stage circuits, and
• wherein the order of scan signals output from odd numbered stage groups of the k number of stage groups is different from the order of scan signals output from even numbered stage groups.

A display apparatus, comprising:

• a display panel including a plurality of unit pixels having a plurality of subpixels, a plurality of gate line groups connected to the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of data and reference lines connected to the plurality of pixels overlapping the plurality of gate line groups;
• a gate driving circuit portion connected to the plurality of gate line groups;
• a data driving circuit portion connected to the plurality of data lines and the plurality of reference lines;
• and
• a timing controller controlling a driving timing of each of the gate driving circuit portion and the data driving circuit portion,
• wherein the gate driving circuit portion includes a gate driving circuit including first to mth stage circuits outputting a plurality of scan signals by dividing the plurality of scan signals into a first signal group and a second signal group,
• wherein:
• the first to mth stage circuits are grouped into k number of stage groups having two adjacent stage circuits,
• stage circuits of jth stage group output the scan signals of the first signal group to be earlier than the scan signals of the second signal group, wherein j is a natural number of 1 to k−1, and
• stage circuits of (j+1)th stage group output the scan signals of the second signal group to be earlier than the scan signals of the first signal group.