Disclosed is a gate driving circuit and a display device, which belongs to the technical field of displaying, and resolves a technical problem that a signal transmitted between cascaded gate driving circuits is easily attenuated in the prior art. The gate driving circuit includes a precharging unit circuit, an output unit circuit, and a compensation charging unit circuit; the output unit circuit includes a first reference point and a first clock signal line; and the precharging unit circuit is configured to input a high level to the first reference point before an output period.