A display device able to select a driving capability corresponding to a plurality of resolutions, able to be driven in accordance with the purpose, and able to realize a lower power consumption, and a method of driving the same, providing a vertical drive circuit for processing for successively scanning scan lines in a row direction by scan pulses and successively selecting pixel circuits connected to the scan lines in units of rows in a VGA mode and for processing for successively scanning the scan lines for every adjacent plurality of scan lines in the row direction and successively selecting pixel circuits connected to the plurality of scan lines in units of the plurality of rows in a QVGA mode.